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• SOLIGOR C/D Auto Lenses instruction manual.

Manufacturer description

Suddenly, everything else is obsolete.

If there isn't a new Soligor C/D lens on the front of your camera, your camera is behind the times.

That's because the use of sophisticated computer design techniques has enabled us to develop a line of multicoated lenses that are faster, smaller, lighter and more advanced than any other lens line in existence.

Take our 135mm f/2 for example. This is the lens you've always wanted. Hold it in your hand. It even feels spectacular. Use it, and you'll discover what excellence is all about.

Its high speed makes it a natural for sports photography. Its light weight won't throw your camera off balance. Or add to your baggage weight when traveling.

Whether your main use is for portraits, landscapes or everyday candid shots, Soligor's C/D 135mm f/2 is one of the finest you can do for your camera.

And our 135mm is just one superb example of Soligor's C/D line. There's a lens to meet the exacting demands of every advanced and professional 35mm photographer - from wide-angle to telephoto to macro, to zoom lenses. Each one is a masterpiece of advanced design standards, with features you'd expect to cost you much more.

Convenient rubber grips for easy handling and our unique multi-coating to eliminate glare... those are the difference that make all the difference.

For landscapes, group scenes and architectural exteriors, there's nothing like the Soligor C/D 28mm f/2. With its wide range of acceptance (74 degrees) you get more of the total picture area of a scene. Our lightweight (9.53 oz.) 35mm f/2 is a natural for candid shots, where accurate focusing isn't always possible. For nature lovers and sports buffs, Soligor's 200mm C/D f/2.8 telephoto offers unlimited possibilities. With our 80-200mm f/3.5 zoom, you can switch from a long shot to a medium shot, to a close-up or any point in between. For extreme close-up demanding precise details (in research, small specimen shooting etc.) there's the Soligor C/D 55mm and 100mm f/2.8 Macro lenses.

There's a Soligor lens to meet every one of your photographic needs. And as your needs grow, Soligor will grow to meet them.

From the Peterson's Photographic magazine (1974)

SOLIGOR C/D HIGH SPEED LENSES

NEW FROM AIC PHOTO

New Soligor automatic lenses for 35mm cameras are 28mm f/2, 35mm f/2, 135mm f/2 and 200mm f/2.8 in Pentax, Nikon, Minolta and Canon FD mounts (Miranda and Konica to follow) ...

From the Modern Photography magazine

The time is now well past when an independent lens maker's name on an optic only indicated a buyer's thrifty nature. While most independent lens makers still do provide a standard lens line of thrifty buys (in which features of the camera manufacturer's own brand of lenses are nearly duplicated, item by item), the top independents have gone beyond that with their own series of prestige lenses. However, the word prestige, coupled with obviously top-notch physical construction, would certainly not be enough to woo buyers (at the prices asked) unless there were extra inducements. In most of the Soligor C/D lenses, the name of the game is high speed with minimum size and weight. And while these three C/D Soligors (28/2, 135/2 and 200/2.8) may not be the fastest lenses in town in each focal length, they certainly combine speed and compactness plus opticai quality in a manner unmatched by others.

Since we have been baring the true manufacturers of prestige independent brand optics, we should point out that these C/D Soligors are the products of Tokina, formerly Tokyo Koki, of T4 interchangeable lens-mount fame, aided by the fine hand of the U.S. importer, Allied Impex Corp., purveyors of the Soligor brand lenses. And without cast-ing any aspersions on T4 optics, there is a difference in the look and feel of these. The family resemblance of all three C/D lenses is strong: bright black satin finish; diamond-studded, rubberized-grip focusing rings; extremely legible green footage and white meter markings (although we U.S. chauvinists would have preferred it the other way 'round); click half-stops throughout except between the next-to-last and last f/stop. And, as befits prestige lenses, each is multicoated.

Notes

• Independent-brand lenses were made for 35mm film SLR cameras by companies that competed with the camera manufacturers. Some came from factories that made lenses under their own brand names (Angenieux, Kiron, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina). Many others were national and international marketing organizations (Kalimar, Panagor, Rokunar, Soligor, Starblitz) that bought lenses from anonymous manufacturers. One firm — Vivitar — actually designed its own lenses and accessories, which were then subcontracted to manufacturing firms. Still others were private labels, sold only by specific photo specialty shops (Cambron, Quantaray, Spiratone).
• This Soligor lens has s/n 1xxxxxxx, therefore it was produced by Tokina.

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